Randy Paar, a longtime Greenwich resident, successful lawyer and daughter of late-night talk show host Jack Paar, died Saturday after falling off a platform at Grand Central Terminal last week.

Paar, 63, lived in a house on Hope Farm Road since 1981. Her father, Jack Paar, frequently mentioned her during his monologues and in-home movies during his show. Jack Paar, who hosted "The Tonight Show" in the 1950s, also lived in Greenwich until his death in 2004 following a stroke.

Robin Cohen, a friend and colleague of Paar at Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, where Paar was a partner, said Paar was found on Track 26 around 8 a.m. May 30. Cohen said Paar appeared to have fallen backward onto the track, hitting her head. She died three days later at Bellevue Hospital. Cohen said investigators still don't know what caused Paar to fall.

Friends and family members recalled Paar as a woman dedicated to her job, representing corporations looking to recover money from insurance companies, who enjoyed coming home to Greenwich to garden and take care of her dogs.

Paar's son, Andrew Wells, who also lives in Greenwich, said his mother enjoyed traveling to places like Africa, Greece and Turkey, and seeing plays in New York City and London.

She also loved animals, and worked for a zoo while she attended college, occasionally bringing animals back to the dorm.

"I have a great picture of her with a baby lion with a bottle in the lion's mouth," Wells said.

Many people who grew up watching Jack Paar on NBC remember Randy from the stories her father used to tell.

She also got to meet The Beatles during a trip to England, and suggested that her father promote their appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964.

Wells said his mother enjoyed telling the story when people asked her about it, or when they talked about The Beatles.

"She didn't tell it all the time, but I think she enjoyed the memory of it," Wells said.

Paar was surprisingly grounded, despite having grown up as "Hollywood royalty," said Michael Macari, the executive producer and president of Stamford-based EVTV, which created a 1997 memoir of Paar's work for the PBS "American Masters" series.

Macari also helped create a television special called "Jack Paar Comes Home" based on Paar's collection of "Tonight Show" footage.

"Randy grew up on `The Tonight Show,'" said Macari, who was too young to stay up and watch Paar on late-night TV, but met Randy years later at the family's home and at events where her father was honored. "People felt that they knew her."

Macari said Jack Paar once told a story about how he lectured Randy about table manners before the family went to dinner with then-U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

"At the table she turned to Kennedy and said, `Mr. Attorney General, would you like one of my shrimp?'" Macari said. "She was as normal as the kid next door. She grew up in a certain privileged time, but she was a very normal kid. He was so proud of her."

Cohen, who has worked with Paar since the late 1980s, remembered Paar as a dedicated attorney who inherited a talent for performance from her father that was often on display in the courtroom.

"She was one of the best trial attorneys I have ever seen," Cohen said. "She had the quick wit -- you have to be quick in TV. She was one of those people who could process information and questions very quickly. I think it was in her genes."

Paar was born in Los Angeles in 1949 and grew up in Bronxville, N.Y., moving to Greenwich after marrying Stephen Wells. The couple divorced earlier this year, according to Andrew. Jack Paar and his wife, Miriam, eventually joined Randy in Greenwich.

Author Herman Raucher, who recently moved from Cos Cob to Stamford, was friends with the Paars and remembered Randy as "open, direct, good-natured."

Raucher's daughter, Old Greenwich resident Jackie Salkin, was good friends with Randy Paar, and Paar got Salkin a job as a paralegal at the law firm Anderson Kill & Olick after she graduated from college.

Salkin eventually managed the firm's 60 legal assistants.

"I had no idea what I wanted to do and she got me a job before anybody knew what a paralegal was," Salkin said. "It was life changing."

Salkin said Paar never dropped her father's name.

"A lot of people would use that as a foot in the door," Salkin said. "She didn't."

Barbara Kavanaugh, Randy Paar's neighbor and friend for the past 27 years, said Paar liked Greenwich's open space. She would often see Paar up at 6:30 a.m., walking her German shepherd and dachshunds in her work clothes.

"She loved living in this area because she could walk," Kavanaugh said. "When her parents were alive, they would come and walk with her on the street."

Kavanaugh said Paar was hard-working but generous, recently taking the time to talk to Kavanaugh's daughter, a law school graduate, about the field and providing her with a contact at Paar's firm.

"She was a tough litigator, but on the street here she was the kindest, sweetest person you would ever want to know," Kavanaugh said.

The family is planning a memorial service in New York City, Wells said.